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Then I became this stupid, trilling thing: what I desired was to become obscene. All the things I had loved up to thenfell away in the long struggle between winter and spring. And then there was my...
View ArticleTo Protect and Serve, or Pilfer and Steal?
Last year, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stunning ruling: There is no “clearly established law” holding that police officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they steal property that...
View ArticleThe Pandemic Is Christmas for Anti-Labor Ghouls
Given the enormity of our current crisis, it can feel difficult to imagine what life will look like on the other side of the coronavirus. Calls to return to “normal” have rang out from every possible...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Coronavirus Death Cult Takes to the Streets
“LIBERATE MINNESOTA!” “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” “LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!” These Friday tweets from President Donald Trump condemning coronavirus restrictions...
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American Foreign Policy Is Not Ready for Climate Change
Climate change will define the global political landscape of the twenty-first century. As Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, then the head of the U.S. Pacific Command, told journalists in 2013, political...
View ArticleMerritt Wever Is Too Good For Run
Run, a new HBO series masterminded by the director of Fleabag’s inaugural stage run, Vicky Jones, has an intriguing, sexy premise: Ruby Richardson, a housewife with two children, has maintained a...
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A Shot in Hell
I had been in Las Vegas for two days before I looked up the site of the deadliest mass shooting in American history and realized that it had occurred in the open lot across the boulevard from my hotel....
View ArticleThe Problem With Heroizing Health Care Workers Like Me
One recent evening, I was in my apartment getting ready for my night shift in the Cardiac Care Unit at a major hospital in New York City. It was 7 p.m., two hours before my first shift, and I was...
View ArticlePublic Health Depends on a Healthy Planet
The butterfly effect is a thought experiment about how a small change in a system—a butterfly flapping its wings—can ripple through complex, interconnected systems, eventually cascading into larger...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court’s War Over Jury Trials Could Change Everything
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Sixth Amendment requires juries to reach unanimous verdicts when they find defendants guilty of serious crimes. This may come as a surprise to many Americans,...
View ArticleWhy the U.S. Buys Too Many Missiles and Not Enough Masks
Earlier this month, the Pentagon inked a contract to pay $818 million to Lockheed for hundreds of new extended-range, air-launched cruise missiles with thousand-pound explosive warheads. By then,...
View ArticleA Brief Criminal History of the Mask
Last week, Jennvine Wong, staff attorney for the Cop Accountability Project at the Legal Aid Society, told me there were cops walking around outside of her Brooklyn apartment who weren’t wearing masks....
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The Exclusivity Economy
If you can make it in New York, the cliché goes, you can make it anywhere. But there’s making and then there’s making it. A recent feature in Eater identified a trend in the habits of a sliver of New...
View ArticleThe Right Way to Push Biden to the Left
Most presidential nominees leave the primary season behind with a sprint to the political center. It’s a testament to the power progressives have built within the Democratic Party since 2016 that Joe...
View ArticleCoronavirus Emergency Aid Has Become Its Own Disaster in Indian Country
In Indian Country right now, like so much of the country, the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed itself as a series of overlapping and compounding crises: Tribal leaders have rushed to secure personal...
View ArticleThe Urgent Message of Negative Oil Prices
For the first time ever, oil is trading at negative prices after plummeting sharply yesterday. In other words, because it costs money to store and transport oil, drillers—and, specifically in this...
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Fiona Apple Gets Free
There are some records that sound as if their creators were hit over the head, forgot how to put together a song, then had to rebuild the whole thing from scratch. Think of Van Morrison’s mad...
View ArticleBiden’s Incoherent, China-Bashing Attack on Trump
If someone gave you two minutes, as well as an experienced crew of advertising professionals, and asked you to produce a video explaining how and why Donald Trump bears personal responsibility for the...
View ArticleGenerational Warfare in a Pandemic
If you graduated college or high school at the nadir of the Great Recession and then had to cobble together a living in a decimated job market with ruinous amounts of student debt, odds are good that...
View ArticleThe Media’s Coronavirus Coverage Exposes Its Ignorance About the Working Class
We are living in a situation where everything in the world should, by all rights, be falling apart. Anything that isn’t currently in the process of disintegrating is only being held together by the...
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